Raven Goodwin and Amber Riley both made names for themselves while maneuvering through the obstacles of Hollywood. So it’s easy for them to relate to the characters they play in the upcoming …
said she shares similar sentiments, particularly as it applies to the music industry.
“I was signed to a record label and my biggest qualm with them was they had an idea of who I was, and what my voice was, even after I got on ‘Glee,’ on which I was typecast,” she said. “There were some scenes where I got to break out of that, which is really dope, but I was never a belter, the person that sang loud and hollered. I was a classically trained singer.
“But because I was a fat black girl it was like, ‘Oh, no this is who you have to be.’ And I fought against that.” Riley recently made it clear that she does not want to be called “Mercedes” on Twitter after someone repeatedly called her by her character’s name on “Glee.”tweeted“I did a song with R&B singer Eric Bellinger years ago called ‘Never Be Lonely,'” she said. “I remember going on YouTube because I did a music video for [the song] and someone said, ‘Man her voice doesn’t match her face. I was wondering why the big girl was in the video but then I realized that was her voice.
“I just thought that was so interesting and I said, ‘I’m going to continue to sing this way so that people will see me.'”
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